October 2013

You’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The Atlantic Alliance aims to keep relevant by embracing change.

Sequestration is imperiling what’s left of the Arsenal of Democracy.

The sheer size of the F-35 program makes it an irresistible target for congressional cost-cutters.

A pair of Air Force roadmap studies will help guide the service toward its future intelligence, survei

TSgt. Tim Wilkinson earned the Air Force Cross for his heroism during 1993’s harrowing Battle of Mogad

The French outpost at Dien Bien Phu fell in 1954, 10 years before the United States was drawn into Vie

The legendary airman accomplished a signature achievement in the skies over Europe.

Strategists have always known that the ability to predict the weather may mean winning—or losing—the b

The full buy of F-35s; Updated budget numbers; Overhaul DOD; What the services should do; What’s next

Airman Killed in Afghanistan SSgt. Todd J. Lobraico Jr., 22, died on Sept. 5 from wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with small-arms fire near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, announced the Defense Department. He was assigned to the New...

Report From Utopia “The only way to be assured that Syrian chemical weapons will not be used in the future is … through a successful international effort. … [This includes] an urgent effort to convene without conditions the long-delayed peace...

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“Frisch-Peierls Memorandum” Otto R. Frisch and Rudolf E. Peierls Memo given to the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Warfare Birmingham, England March 1940 FULL TEXT VERSION It was a remarkably prescient document—the first technical description of a workable...

Training Spike I just read with special interest your August article titled “Momyer” [p. 64] and learned many things that I wish I had known back in 1970 about General Spike. As a major and a combat crew training instructor...

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Just in Time Columbia Palmetto Chapter’s president, Lt. Col. E. G. Shuler III, reports that an AFA Spouse Scholarship arrived just in time for his local recipient in South Carolina. Tuition and fees at the University of South Carolina, Columbia,...